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HEXXAGON
Welcome to deep space. What better place than the pristine
reaches of the galaxy to escape and practice the ancient alchemy of
pure logic, changing the very state of matter? HEXXAGON deigns to
take you there...
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
To play HEXXAGON, you need:
o A system with a 286 or better processor.
o A VGA compatible display card.
o At least 640k RAM, with about 475k free from the DOS prompt.
We recommend:
o A Microsoft(TM) compatible mouse.
o A SoundBlaster(TM) or compatible sound card.
THE GAME
HEXXAGON is an animated game of strategy, loaded with options,
in which it is your task to take over as much of the vorld, ah,
board as your opponent will allow, whether your opponent is another
mere human or our resident noid of unflinching logic, the dauntless
CRANIAC.
CRANIAC, represented by a single light bulb, will happily defeat
you in any one of three modes. Choose your poison, and don't be
taken in by the apparent simplicity of CRANIAC'S lightbulb facade,
his glasses or his bow tie; he'll lure you in and hit you with the
"kill"owatts of brain power that reside in that little icon.
Cower not -- one of your available options is to actually "see"
how the little twerp thinks. On the two higher detail levels,
CRANIAC displays his moves before he makes them, showing his options
with flashing neon green and yellow paths.
On the low detail level, he will counter immediately after you
move -- instantaneous annihilation. Again, don't be alarmed, the
three modes, "CRANIAC EASY, MEDIUM & HARD," allow you to choose the
level of difficulty you take on.
Revenge is sweet; you'll have every opportunity for payback,
because when you enter the space next to any of your opponent's
pieces, they are transformed into yours. From solid to liquid or
liquid to solid, transforming a solid red jewel into a liquid chrome
drop requires heat, and heat you'll get in the form of lightning.
When a liquid is alchemized into a solid, you'll see a frozen stream
of ice particles.
MOVES
There are two ways to complete your mission in HEXXAGON. You
may move one space, represented by a green neon outline, and your
game piece is duplicated into that space. When you move two spaces,
represented by a yellow neon glow, your gamepiece "jumps" to that
space, but is not duplicated.
First click the red or blue arrow that appears each time it is
your turn on the piece you want to move. HEXXAGON will show you all
of your potential moves for that piece, or any of your pieces you
click on. The only possible moves are to free spaces, one or two
spaces from your current position. You may then move the arrow to
one of the allowable spaces indicated by the green and yellow neon
glows and click again to move there. Any time you move next to one
of your opponent's pieces, enjoy the fireworks!
If you decide that a move you've made isn't quite what you want,
press the 'U' key to undo the move. If you've used undo to back up,
and haven't made any moves yet, you can press the 'R' key to redo
the moves.
STRATEGY HINTS
HEXXAGON has been called a "game of edges," in which an overall
strategy might be to try and fill all the edges of the board, while
keeping a solid front flank. Remember that you will have to venture
into the middle, as your goal here is to control as much of the
field as you can.
You never want to leave a hole in territory you already dominate
-- CRANIAC will leap at the chance to gain lost ground. He's
relentless!
Never jump with a piece if you can replicate to fill the same
opening. Why give HIM extra chances?
Beware of false gains -- often there are moves that look more
advantageous than they really are. It's important to weigh the
number of pieces you'll gain on a given move against the number
CRANIAC can gain by countering.
THE MENU
As in every challenge, victory is all in the way you control the
game. HEXXAGON offers several different options to give you all the
control you need.
To get to the menu, press the "ENTER" key from the demonstration
cycle, or (if you're in a game), press the "ESCAPE" key or click on
the "MENU" button.
In the "Player 1" and "Player 2" boxes you are able to select
whether you are the red jewel piece or the liquid chrome by clicking
on the button labeled "HUMAN." If you are playing a friend, instead
of the terrible CRANIAC, you select "HUMAN" in both boxes and simply
pick who will be what.
You may play CRANIAC at any of three levels, "CRANIAC EASY,"
"CRANIAC MEDIUM" or "CRANIAC HARD." Logically, each level is
increasingly more challenging. When you play the EASY level,
CRANIAC is indicated by a lightbulb alone. On MEDIUM, he dons a
pair of intellectual spectacles, and on HARD, he adds his
professorial bow tie.
Understandably, as the diffulty level rises, so does the time it
takes CRANIAC to determine his move.
In the "SOUND" box, you can set the game's sound output to
"OFF," "PC SPEAKER," or (if you have a SoundBlaster or compatible)
you can hear the full digital sound effects by selecting
"SOUNDBLASTER."
You can also control the detail level of your match. On "HIGH,"
you'll get the full HEXXAGON treatment, complete with awesome
animation. On "MEDIUM," the stars disappear from the screen,
CRANIAC moves more quickly, and a few animations don't show up. On
"LOW," CRANIAC moves in turbo mode and there is no animation during
the game at all. You will not see the pieces being transformed, it
will happen instantaneously.
If you are not currently playing a game, you will also find
"START GAME," "RETURN TO DEMO," "CONFIGURE BOARD," and "QUIT TO DOS"
buttons on the screen.
If you are in the midst of a game, your options are "STOP GAME,"
"RETURN TO GAME," and "QUIT TO DOS."
"START GAME" begins your match with CRANIAC; "RETURN TO DEMO"
allows you to view sample animated games and the title and credit
pages; "QUIT TO DOS" takes you out of HEXXAGON and back into DOS;
"RETURN TO GAME" allows you to go back to a game in progress and
"STOP GAME" lets you end a current match, but will not take you out
of the program completely.
The "CONFIGURE BOARD" option allows you to experiment with
varying game board set-ups. See the next section for a description.
Power-user note: Most menu items have a single red letter.
Pressing that letter on your keyboard has the same effect as
clicking on the item.
BOARD CONFIGURATION
Selecting the "CONFIGURE BOARD" button from within the menu will
take you to the game board you will be playing on, with a few menu
items added to the screen to assist you in setting the board up.
In the upper-left hand corner are icons representing a hexagon,
a red jewel, and a blue chrome drop. By clicking on these icons,
you can choose how you're going to modify the board.
If you have the hexagon selected, the cursor will be the
standard pointing hand. By clicking on the hexagons on the board,
you can open a new hole on the board, or fill existing holes in.
When you select the jewel or chrome drop, the cursor will change
to a red or blue arrow, respectively. Clicking on the hexagons on
the board will place or remove a jewel or chrome drop.
As a shortcut, you may use the right mouse button to cycle
through the cursors.
In the upper-right hand corner there are two items. The first
is a bar with the numbers '1' through '5' on it. The second is a
button labeled "RESTORE."
By clicking on the individual numbers, you can select one of the
five boards available for customization. Each of the boards can be
completely different - different family members can each have their
own custom board configuration, or you can keep a group of your own
favorites. The bar indicates which board is currently active.
If you'd like to reset the current board to the way it was when
you got HEXXAGON, click on the "RESTORE" button, or press the
"ENTER" key. Clicking on the "RESTORE" button again before you make
any changes to the board brings the board back to the way it was
before you clicked on "RESTORE" the first time.
To return to the menu, click on the "MENU" button in the
lower-left hand corner, or hit the "ESCAPE" key. When you are ready
to play using your new setup, just click on "START GAME." Your
custom boards will be saved when you choose "QUIT TO DOS."
THE END -- AND THE BEGINNING
Well, that's it - go have some fun!
Program written by:
Jason Blochowiak
Abraham Edlin
Illustration & animation by:
Don Glassford
Digital and PC sound effects by:
Robert Prince
Manual contributions by:
Faith Benson
Jason Blochowiak
Don Glassford
Producer:
Jason Blochowiak
TECH-WEENIE STUFF
Seeing as I (Jason) am usually curious as to how other
programmers go about their projects, I figured that I'd mention some
details related to the production of HEXXAGON. If you're not a
programmer familiar with how games are written, most (or all) of
this won't make any sense. This isn't an exhaustive treatise, but
it should give you some idea...
Tools used: Electronic Arts' Deluxe Paint II Enhanced (DP IIe)
and Deluxe Paint Animator (DA), Borland C++ v3.1 (BC), and some of
my own custom tools (DIFR, DIFRC, VGRAB, and SSED).
DA was used to do the title page animation, the credits page
animation, the win/lose animations, and the sample move/takeover
animations. DIFR and DIFRC (a delta-frame generator and compiler,
respectively) were used for all of the fixed location animations
(the title & credits pages, win/lose, etc.).
DP IIe was used for the still art, and for stripping the cels
from the sample move/takeover animations.
DP IIe & DA are powerful tools - I recommend them. They're not
the simplest programs to use, but they more than make up for that in
the power they provide.
VGRAB (a scripted grabber) was used to pull the chunks of
graphics from the files generated in DP IIe, and compile them where
appropriate. VGRAB was also used to pull together (and compress)
all of the other files (PC & digital sound, for example) used in the
project.
VGRAB and DIFRC use (different) optimizing compilers. VGRAB
uses value ordering to minimize register loads, and string stores to
decrease object size and draw time. There are some other
optimizations, but those are the more useful ones. DIFRC uses
string stores for single color runs in the delta data, and uses a
vaguely LZSS-like method to avoid repeatedly storing similar data
into the data segment for a particular frame. As with VGRAB, there
are other optimizations made, but those seem to be the most useful.
I wrote the custom utilities mentioned, the core libraries for
the game, the interface stuff, and some higher level structural
code. Abe wrote the brain, and handled the bulk of the grab
scripting, animation definition, and sound synchronization.
The game and libraries are written in a mix of C++ (not
object-oriented, just "better C") and assembly. Most of the
assembly is in the Drawing Manager, but there are bits and pieces
elsewhere, as appropriate.
Well, enough rambling from me - enjoy the game!
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HEXXAGON
Produced by Argo Games.
Published by Software Creations.
This file provides information for Shareware Distributors, Disk Vendors, BBS
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SHORT DESCRIPTION:
** HEXXAGON - The Animated Strategy Game **
Published by Software Creations (VGA/286/SB)
MEDIUM DESCRIPTION:
** HEXXAGON - The Animated Strategy Game **
** From Software Creations & Argo Games. **
Immerse yourself in one of the most enjoy-
able and richly crafted games to date. Over
a MEG of animated 256 color VGA graphics &
digital sound make this game an instant
classic! One-on-one or play vs computer.
Req: VGA, 286 or above. SB support. <ASP>
LONG DESCRIPTION:
Software Creations presents
Argo Games' HEXXAGON - The Animated Strategy Game
Immerse yourself in one of the most enjoyable and richly crafted
games to date. Revel in the fully animated 256 color VGA graphics and
completely digital sound. Sharpen your wits against CRANIAC, your
unmerciful computer opponent. Alter the very state of matter!
Play testers have called HEXXAGON "More addicting than Tetris." Get it,
and find out why HEXXAGON is an instant classic!
Features:
o 256 color VGA graphics.
o Digital sound effects for SoundBlaster and 100% compatibles.
o Over one MEG of Graphics and Sound!
o Play against a friend, or against the computer.
o Fully functional shareware version.
Requirements:
286 or better.
VGA compatible graphics card.
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virus free. We've isolated our systems and check every program
submitted to insure that no viruses make their way to your computer or
ours.
Our support staff is available by phone as well as on our BBS to help
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Through our network of international distributors, PC- SIG strives to
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Shareware Magazine has distinguished itself as the only internationally
distributed periodical devoted to the use and business of shareware.
Shareware Magazine provides detailed reviews of new products,
hard-hitting comparisons of shareware programs with regular retail
software, and timely information about changes in the industry and the
latest technology.
Intriguing columnists and regular features add to the excitement. The
beginners section sheds light on new user's concerns regarding
everything from choosing the right operating system to alleviating the
intimidation of using on-line systems.
Educational sections focus on how low cost shareware can aid in
classroom learning, curriculum development, and as a forum for
discussing the impact of computers and technology in schools.
Graphics Gallery renders expert advice and suggestions on how to better
work with graphics, desktop publishing, CAD systems, and the Windows
environment.
Programmers benefit from others experience in developing new programs or
polishing existing ones as well as choosing the right programming
language.
And columnists provide that subjective component, sometimes
controversial, that calls for a closer look at the way we compute and
how shareware effects what we do.
Published bimonthly, Shareware Magazine is available on a subscription
or at your local newsstand or computer bookstore. In conjunction with
PC-SIG, there are special benefits for subscribers as well as
opportunities for discount purchases from PC-SIG.
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